Head to head
Omdurman vs Nyala
Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Omdurman is the larger of the two, with 1,849,659 people to 565,734 in Nyala. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Everything below is the evidence for that: population, size within each city’s own country, the distance between them, and where each one stands on the global board.
The answer
SummaryNeither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Omdurman is the larger of the two, with 1,849,659 people to 565,734 in Nyala. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Omdurman nor Nyala has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
Sudan| Metric | Omdurman | Nyala |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 1,849,659 | 565,734 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 2nd largest | 4th largest |
| Country | Sudan | Sudan |
| Region | Khartoum | Southern Darfur |
| National capital | No | No |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 12:53 AM · UTC+02:00 | 12:53 AM · UTC+02:00 |
| CityWar rank | Unclaimed | Unclaimed |
| City score$1 contributed = 1 point | $0 | $0 |
| Backers | 0 | 0 |
| Score added todaysince 00:00 UTC | $0 | $0 |
Distance and time
912 km apartOmdurman and Nyala are 912 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Both are in Sudan. Nyala keeps time the same time as Omdurman.
Omdurman has 1,283,925 more people — 3.3× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Omdurman or Nyala?
- Omdurman is the larger city by population, with 1,849,659 people to 565,734 in Nyala — a difference of 1,283,925. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Omdurman and Nyala?
- 912 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Both cities are in Sudan. Nyala keeps time the same time as Omdurman.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Omdurman or Nyala?
- Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Omdurman is the larger of the two, with 1,849,659 people to 565,734 in Nyala. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
- How is a city's CityWar score calculated?
- One US dollar contributed is one point, and cities are ordered by total score with the highest first. When two cities are level the one backed first holds the higher rank. Nothing else is in the calculation — no population weighting, no votes and no editorial judgement — which is why Omdurman and Nyala both currently sit at $0.
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6Settle it
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